Paperback | March 15, 2014

W. E. B. Du Bois was a public intellectual, sociologist, and activist on behalf of the African American community. He profoundly shaped black political culture in the United States through his founding role in the NAACP, as well as internationally through the Pan-African movement. Du Bois'ssociological and historical research on African-American communities and culture broke ground in many areas, including the history of the post-Civil War Reconstruction period. Du Bois was also a prolific author of novels, autobiographical accounts, innumerable editorials and journalistic pieces, andseveral works of history.Published posthumously in 1968, The Autobiography of W. E. B. Du Bois is his last and most complete autobiography. Covering his life over almost a century of living in America, it's the closest thing we have to a true autobiography of this important scholar and activist. The book, broken up intothree parts, delves into the 90-year-old Du Bois's thoughts on everything from his relationship with sex to his storied association with the NAACP to his political persecution during the Cold War years to his many travels abroad. As Du Bois writes, he takes the reader on a journey to "view my lifeas frankly and fully as I can." With a series introduction by editor Henry Louis Gates, Jr., and an introduction by Werner Sollors, this edition is essential for anyone interested in African American history.

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W. E. B. Du Bois was a public intellectual, sociologist, and activist on behalf of the African American community. He profoundly shaped black political culture in the United States through his founding role in the NAACP, as well as internationally through the Pan-African movement. Du Bois'ssociological and historical research on Africa...

Henry Louis Gates, Jr., is the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and Director of the W. E. B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research at Harvard University. He has edited several major reference works, including Dictionary of African Biography, African American Lives,
Africana, and African American National Bi...

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Series Introduction: The Black Letters on the SignIntroductionPart One1. My 15th Trip Abroad2. Western Europe3. The Pawned Peoples4. The Soviet Union5. ChinaInterlude: CommunismPart Two6. My Birth and Family7. Boyhood in Great Barrington8. I Go South9. Harvard in the Last Decades of the 19th Century10. Europe 1892 to 189411. Wilberforce12. University of Pennsylvania13. Atlanta University14. The Niagara Movement15. The NAACP16. My Character17. The Depression18. New Deal for Negroes19. I Return to the NAACPPart Three20. Work for Peace21. An Indicted Criminal22. The Trial23. My Tenth DecadePostludeIndexWilliam Edward Burghardt Du Bois: A ChronologySelected Bibliography